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Construction-Dependent Floquet Topology in Circularly Driven N-Stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains

  • Aayushi Agrawal
  • Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay
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Abstract

We investigate construction-dependent Floquet topology in a two-dimensional lattice formed by stacking Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains with co-located sublattice orbitals. We present two constructions in the decoupled-chain limit. Construction-I: the constituent SSH chains are topologically trivial with winding number w=0. Construction-II: the constituent SSH chains are topologically nontrivial with w=1. Although these constructions are unitarily equivalent in the static limit, circular driving distinguishes them because the hopping processes related by the transformation correspond to different physical bond vectors and therefore acquire different Peierls phases. Using the Floquet-Sambe formalism, we determine the quasienergy spectra and phase diagrams in terms of the lower-band Chern number CL and directional Zak phases (Zx, Zy). We find distinct Floquet phase structures, including low-frequency phases with CL = −3 and CL = −4 in the two constructions. Since the Chern number does not resolve the topology of the two quasienergy gaps separately, we further calculate the dynamical winding numbers W0 and Wπ, and verify the corresponding chiral edge states. In particular, at identical driving parameters, both constructions can have the same Chern numbers CL=−2, while their gap-resolved winding numbers are (W0, Wπ)=(0, +2) and (−2, 0), respectively. We also calculate the time-averaged optical Hall conductivity and show that $ C_Le^2/h$ determines its dc value for ideal full-band occupation. At the same time, its finite-frequency response contains photon-assisted contributions. Our results demonstrate that the physical construction of the constituent chains, although irrelevant to the static bulk spectrum, can play a decisive role in the Floquet topological structure. We discuss possible experimental realizations of the driven model.

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BibTeX
@misc{agrawal2026constructiondependent,
  title = {{Construction-Dependent Floquet Topology in Circularly Driven $N$-Stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains}},
  author = {Aayushi Agrawal and Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.09925},
  eprint = {2610.09925},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09925},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Construction-Dependent Floquet Topology in Circularly Driven N-Stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains
AU  - Aayushi Agrawal
AU  - Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/07
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.09925
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09925
AB  - We investigate construction-dependent Floquet topology in a two-dimensional lattice formed by stacking Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains with co-located sublattice orbitals. We present two constructions in the decoupled-chain limit. Construction-I: the constituent SSH chains are topologically trivial with winding number w=0. Construction-II: the constituent SSH chains are topologically nontrivial with w=1. Although these constructions are unitarily equivalent in the static limit, circular driving distinguishes them because the hopping processes related by the transformation correspond to different physical bond vectors and therefore acquire different Peierls phases. Using the Floquet-Sambe formalism, we determine the quasienergy spectra and phase diagrams in terms of the lower-band Chern number C_L and directional Zak phases (Z_x, Z_y). We find distinct Floquet phase structures, including low-frequency phases with C_L = −3 and C_L = −4 in the two constructions. Since the Chern number does not resolve the topology of the two quasienergy gaps separately, we further calculate the dynamical winding numbers W_0 and W_π, and verify the corresponding chiral edge states. In particular, at identical driving parameters, both constructions can have the same Chern numbers C_L=−2, while their gap-resolved winding numbers are (W_0, W_π)=(0, +2) and (−2, 0), respectively. We also calculate the time-averaged optical Hall conductivity and show that $ C_Le^2/h$ determines its dc value for ideal full-band occupation. At the same time, its finite-frequency response contains photon-assisted contributions. Our results demonstrate that the physical construction of the constituent chains, although irrelevant to the static bulk spectrum, can play a decisive role in the Floquet topological structure. We discuss possible experimental realizations of the driven model.
ER  -